Prof. dr. Burcu Dogramaci public lecture „Art (History) on the move: Dis:connectivity, Entanglements and Exile“
10 September, at 11:00 am
Juozas Karosas hall, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Gedimino pr. 42, Vilnius)
Exile and migration have shaped 20th-century art and contributed to new artistic concepts and forms of expression. My lecture will explore recent approaches which could help to explore art and art history as “on the move”. Based on case studies, passages, detours, absences, and interruptions will be analysed as indications of a dis:connective art history in a global perspective. In addition, practices of entanglement and kinship will be discussed, which can be a further effect of displacements – for example, when exiles come together and jointly present themselves in front of the camera and (in the sense of “doing exile”) form an exile community. My lecture understands entanglement and dis:connectivity not only as practices closely linked to phenomena of exile in art. Rather, the perspective of researchers should also be situated in this context: How, for example, can dis:connective phenomena be communicated in art-historical exile research, and how can digital methods mediate research findings on a topic marked by absences and losses?
Prof. dr. Burcu Dogramaci (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) is a leading scholar and the director of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect. Her research explores modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on exile and migration as reflected in photography, architecture, fashion, and street art. From 2017 to 2023, she served as the principal investigator of the highly acclaimed project Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile (METROMOD), funded by the European Research Council (ERC). More information on the project is available at https://metromod.net
Latest publications
- London Exile: Metropolis, Modernity, and Artistic Migration (Leuven University Press, 2025);
- Grenze|Granica. Art on the German-Polish Border after 1990 (with Marta Smolińska, Böhlau 2024);
- Urban Exile. Theories, Methods, Research Practices (Intellect, 2023, ed. with Ekaterina Aygün et al.);
- Handbook of Art and Global Migration Theories, Practices, and Challenges (ed. with Birgit Mersmann, De Gruyter, 2019).
